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DR KATRINA NAVICKAS
School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
01707 285624 k.navickas@herts.ac.uk
Historian of popular politics in 18th and 19th-century Britain.
Current activities:
 Awaiting publication of monograph Protest and the Politics of Space
and Place, 1789-1848 (forthcoming with Manchester University Press),
 CI in BA/Leverhulme project for digitisation of the Home Office
disturbance papers at The National Archives
 Developing further funding bids for digitisation and community
engagement projects leading up to the Peterloo commemoration,
Manchester, 2019
EMPLOYMENT:
University of Hertfordshire Acting Head of History
Feb. 2014 – Aug. 2014
University of Hertfordshire Senior Lecturer in History
Dec. 2012 - present
University of Hertfordshire Lecturer in History
Sept. 2009 – Dec. 2012
University of Edinburgh Lecturer in British History
Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2009
Bath Spa University Lecturer [0.5] in British History
Feb. 2006 – July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford Departmental Lecturer [0.5] in British History
Oct. 2005 – July 2006
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
2014 semester B – acting Head of History
management of 11 staff, sitting on Humanities programme board
committee and Dean of School advisory group, organising the
timetable and new modules for the next academic year, overseeing the
examination diet for BA History, and managing the recruitment process

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of two new staff in liaison with HR and the Head of School. Also
involved in admissions for Clearing 2014.
2013 to present - School of Humanities Research Students’ Tutor
overseeing the supervision, welfare and administration of postgraduate
research students and their supervisors, dealing with appeals and
assessment arrangements, assessing ethics applications on the Ethics
Board.
2013 to present – Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History,
Relaunching the centre, attracting and supporting postgraduate
research students, developing outreach activities and events,
particularly in collaboration with the National Army Museum and
Hertfordshire Archives, setting up the new website and acting as joint
editor of Explorations in Regional and Local History series for UH
Press.
2012 to present - Reviews Editor for Social History journal
2012 elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2011 to present - Communications Officer of the Social History Society
2010-11 - programme convenor of the annual conference of the Social
History Society – major international conference of over 200 delegates at the
University of Manchester
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION:
 Nathan Bend, AHRC collaborative doctoral award with The National
Archives, ‘Popular radicalism, local government and the Home Office
disturbance papers, 1782-1832’
 Karen Rothery, AHRC funded PhD in collaboration with Oxford
Brookes University, joint-supervision with Dr Alysa Levene, ‘The
administration of the 1834 New Poor Law in Hertfordshire’.
 Dianne Shepherd, PhD, part-time, ‘Female agency, politics and
community in later nineteenth-century East End of London’.
 David Noble, PhD, part-time, ‘The Primitive Methodists in nineteenth-century
Hertfordshire’.
Currently supervising two MA by Research students, and two students just
submitted.
Internal examiner for Paul Cowdell, ‘Belief in Ghosts in Modern Britain’, PhD
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Completed: Rudi Newman, PhD, ‘The socio-economic impacts of the coming
of the railways to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire’,
supervision with Professor Nigel Goose, November 2014.
EDUCATION:
St. John’s College, University of Oxford
2005 DPhil Modern History
‘Redefining Loyalism, Radicalism and National Identity: Lancashire
under the threat of Napoleon, 1798-1812’. Internal examiner: Joanna
Innes; external examiner: Michael J. Turner.
2002 MSt Historical Research: Distinction
2001 BA (Hons) Modern History: class I (15th in the year)
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Monograph:
Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 (Oxford University Press,
2009)
Forthcoming:
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 (Manchester
University Press, MS submitted end Sept. 2014, est. pub. 2015)
Book chapters:
1. ‘Thirdspace?: historians and the spatial turn, with a case study of
political graffiti in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century
England’, in Sam Griffiths and Alexander von Lunen, eds., Spatial
Cultures (forthcoming, contract with Ashgate)
2. ‘The Spirit of Loyalty: material culture, space and the construction of an
English loyalist memory, 1790-1840’, in Allan Blackstock and Frank
O’Gorman, eds, Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, c.
1780-1914 (Boydell & Brewer, 2014)
3. ‘Searching for the radical dialect voice in Northern England, 1798–
1819’, in Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble, eds., United
Islands? The Language of Resistance: Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry
and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770–1820 (Pickering & Chatto, 2012)

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4. ‘The defence of Manchester and Liverpool in 1803’, in Mark Philp, ed.,
Resisting Napoleon: the British Response to the Threat of Invasion,
1797–1815 (Ashgate, 2006)
Journal articles:
5. ‘Lancashire Britishness: patriotism in the Manchester region during the
Napoleonic Wars’, Manchester Region History Review, 23 (2012/14,
special edition, Return to Peterloo, edited by Robert Poole).
6. ‘Protest History or the History of Protest?’ History Workshop Journal,
73 (Spring 2012)
7. ‘What Happened to Class? New Histories of Labour and Collective
Action in Britain’, Social History, 36: 2 (May 2011)
8. ‘Captain Swing in the North: the Carlisle Riots of 1830’, History
Workshop Journal, 71 (Spring 2011)
9. ‘Luddism, Incendiarism, and the Defence of ‘Task–Scapes’ in 1812’,
invited paper for Northern History, 48: 1 (March 2011)
10. ‘“That Sash Will Hang You”: Political Clothing and Adornment in
England, 1780–1840’, Journal of British Studies, 47: 3 (2010)
11. ‘Moors and Fields in Popular Protest in South Lancashire and the West
Riding, 1800–1848’, Northern History, 46: 1 (2009)
12. ‘The Search for “General Ludd”: the Mythology of Luddism’, Social
History, 30: 3 (2005)
13. ‘The Cragg Family Memorandum Book: Society, Politics and Religion
in North Lancashire During the 1790s’, Northern History, 42: 1 (2005)
Edited primary sources:
 Jacobites and Jacobins, Two Eighteenth-Century Perspectives, ed.
with Jonathan Oates (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,
2006)
 Selected essays in Mark Philp and Alexandra Franklin, Napoleon and
the Invasion of Britain (Bodleian Library exhibition catalogue, 2003)
FUNDING:
2014 – AHRC Thames Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
with The National Archives – 3 year fully funded PhD studentship (c.£55,000)
to work on the Home Office disturbance papers, 1782-1832.

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2013 – British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant – co-investigator
with Dr Robert Poole, UCLAN, for a pilot project to re-catalogue,
transcribe and digitise the Home Office disturbance papers 1816-17 at The
National Archives, Kew - £9056 for digitisation, training, and two research
assistants.
2013 – applied for major AHRC research grant as PI to work with Historypin to
conduct community co-production with several local history groups, including
Hertfordshire Archives, the British Schools’ Museum, Hitchin, and Smallford
railway society. Although unsuccessful, the proposal was given an A rating.
2012 – Economic History Society conferences and initiatives fund for two
workshops at Universities of the West of England and Gloucestershire,
‘Protest, Memory and Public History’ - £1150. I am the founder and co-ordinator
of the ‘Protest History network’ based around these workshops.
2010 – History Workshop Journal grant for a colloquium at the University of
Hertfordshire, ‘New approaches to the history of protest in Britain and Ireland,
1500-1900’ - £400
2009 – Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland small grant for
research project, ‘Arson and covert protest in northern England, 1800-30’ -
£830
MEDIA:
 November 2014 – BBC 2, Exploring the Past: Protest, schools’
programme on Peterloo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04q12bj
 April 2012 – BBC Radio 4, Today programme, feature on the Luddites.
http://soundcloud.com/generalludd/richard-jones-katrina-navickas
 Nov. 2011 – BBC Radio 3, ‘Were the Luddites Right?’ public debate,
with Rana Mitter, Bill Thompson and Andrew Simms, recorded at the
‘Free Thinking festival’, Sage, Gateshead,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cjqt
 July 2011 – BBC Radio 4, ‘Voices from the Old Bailey’: series 2,
programme 1, ‘Riots’, with Amanda Vickery, Tim Hitchcock and Peter
King, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012r6jq
 April 2011 – BBC Radio 3, ‘Nightwaves’, debate with Jeremy Black on
the Luddites.
Features in the press on my research on political clothing:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/26/students-higher-education
 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/11/occ
upy_wall_street_when_did_we_start_using_t_shirts_to_send_message
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INVITED TALKS, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY:
November 2014 – invited speaker at Les Mondes Britanniques colloquium at
the Sorbonne, University of Paris
August 2014 – advisor to theatre director Lynsey Turner for a production of a
historical play at the Royal Court Theatre
May 2014 – invited speaker at public commemoration of Eric Hobsbawm at
the University of Huddersfield.
March 2014 – Manchester Histories Festival – public workshop with Dr Robert
Poole on the Home Office disturbance papers, helping members of the public
to transcribe correspondence relating to the 1817 March of the Blanketeers.
October 2013 – advisor and actor for University of Hertfordshire collaboration
with London Historians and Twisted Events production of ‘The Coroner’s
Court’, George on the Strand, London
2013 – worked with Irish Network Stevenage to co-ordinate student
volunteers, conduct oral history interviews and transcribe interviews for an
oral history project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund on the history of the Irish
community.
2013 – invited speaker at several events to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of the publication of The Making of the English Working Class by
E. P. Thompson (People’s History Museum, Manchester; Institute of British
Geographers, London), and Chartism Day (Sheffield Hallam)
May 2012 – plenary lecture at Huddersfield Luddite commemoration
weekend, Huddersfield Town Hall, organised by Kirklees Council and the
University of Huddersfield.
2011 – shortlisted for AHRC/BBC Radio 3 ‘New Generation Thinkers’ prize
(shortlist of 53 from over 1000 applications).
Participated in the BBC Radio 3 festival in Gateshead, November 2011,
including a guest speaker on a panel debate on the Luddites, and as part of a
public engagement event ‘meet the new generation thinkers’ with the winners
of the competition.
I also have given several talks to the North London branch of the Historical
Association and Saffron Walden Library Society.